our first week on our scandinavia-trip is done. today we slept pretty long (we both forgot to set our alarm clock once more). after breakfast we went to the center of hammerfest (or at least we thought it was the center). since both of us already had a slight cold when we left and it was getting worse every day, we went to a "apoteke" (pharmacy) today. thanks to the great invention and copyright by bayer, acetylsalisyre is even known here in norway by the name of "aspirin" - so getting the right medication for us was quite easy. additionally we bought some "C-vitamin" (you guessed right, vitamin C). it seems the combination as we know it, namely vitamin C and aspirin ("aspirin plus C" of course copyright and produced by bayer) is unknown here - scandinavian people don't get ill anyway. some shops we visited too were "hennes" (we're still not sure if this is some split "H&M" shop, missing the "M"), an intersport shop (seems like this brand is operating world-wide too) and a coop supermarket, which was "konsum" in austria, if i remember correctly. on our way home we saw two cats! unfortunately the first one was too far away and didn't even notice us, the second one was too shy and hid under a car - too bad. then we started the engine of our camper and drove to alta. of course reindeer where standing next to, but most of the time on the road. so cute, and so stupid. additionally we found a very little snow-field next to the road. though there's still some snow left here and there, this time we could reach it very easily. so, on a very warm and sunny day we touched snow in july, surrounded by blooming flowers and lilac. tomorrow we will try to find some very ancient stone paintings near alta. they're estimated to be done by the, first scandinavian people, between 4000 and 500 b.c., according to our reliable scandinavia guide.